Word: defendants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four cars left the barn under police guard. Two, passengerless, crawled around the beltline. A third was driven back by angry strikers. A fourth was burned on Canal Street before a jeering multitude. Some policemen fired into the mob. Other policemen resigned rather than defend the strikebreakers...
...oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect, defend and enforce the federal Constitution and the laws of Congress enacted thereunder...
...supposed. The revelation came during a legal squabble between two grape juice companies in Federal Court in St. Louis.* A distributing company was suing a producing company on the ground that its product was inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side...
...echoed in the German Reichstag across the way. Most of the thunder came from bulky, rumbling Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Germany's quick-brained, bullet-headed Foreign Minister. Almost completely recovered from a long illness (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.), he had returned from pruning his prize roses to defend in his own fashion the Young Plan settlement of German Reparations. The Nationalists were, charging that the Plan will make Germany a "colony" of England and France...
Quick to his feet rose New York's short, swart Congressman La Guardia. The La Guardia corpuscles, and many a La Guardia constituent, are Latin. Mr. La Guardia arose to defend the fame of that late great Latin, Christopher Columbus. "The House,'' he cried, "ought not to attempt to write history." While expressing 'the greatest admiration and love and affection for the people of Iceland." he clung to the "tangible historical record of the discovery by Columbus...